Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan is Guy No. 2 in the operation of Two Guys Farming, Inc., near Cresco, IA.

Jeff farms during the day, but in the evening he e-mails his observations about life on the farm to his city-dwelling friends. He weaves these observations into entertaining stories that are sure to bring recognition, sometimes tears, but mostly a few smiles and outright belly laughs.

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As the saying goes, "For every task, there is a tool." Almost any guy will tell you that there is no such thing as having too many tools. If you never know exactly what kind of task you may find yourself doing, you c...

A good hands-free device for a cell phone can get a guy into more fun than he could ever imagine. For instance, my phone rang a few weeks ago as I was busy working outside. It was a farmer friend I've known for proba...

While sitting around the table at a friend's birthday party a long time ago, another farmer friend mentioned how his daughter-in-law was going to be having her first child in a couple months.
"First week of May, J...

How long have you had Internet access? Where has it taken you since you acquired it? They call it a world wide web for good reason. Nothing can keep a person connected and intertwined like the Internet does.
We go...

It felt like 2015 was all about retirements and departures for the people who had been a regular part of my adult life. First, it was my banker who retired on December 31st, 2014, after working at the same place for ...

Most of my life, I've done a fairly decent job of staying under the radar in groups of people. In school, we did one of those rankings where you voted for Most This and Most That among your classmates. There were abo...

Several years ago, when I had proposed to Sherill and we were trying to figure out what time of the year we would get married, a thought crossed my mind. I shared it with Sherill to gauge her response. The vast major...

Looking ahead to a new year is usually a time when you can think about all of the possibilities that lie ahead. At the same time, it's not a bad idea to look back at what the past year has brought. What lies ahead is...

Variety is the spice of life, from what I've been told. Sometimes it's a good idea to break up the routine and keep things from getting too boring and mundane.
Blogger Jeff Ryan, and wife Sherill got a vacation i...

You frequently hear people talk about all the different things that farmers do and how we have to be flexible. We need to be mechanics. We need to be agronomists. We need to be number-crunching business owners. We ne...